8:45 AM Welcome | Measuring ROI in Legal – an Executive Practitioner’s Perspective Across the Legal Ecosystem

AI is already in your legal ecosystem: in your law firms, your vendors, and your internal workflows. The question is no longer whether to govern it, but how to do so in a way that's practical, enforceable, and built for the complexity of enterprise legal operations.

In this session, legal operations leaders from Mastercard and Mitratech will share how global enterprises are approaching AI accountability across their legal ecosystems, from setting expectations with outside counsel to building internal guardrails that scale without creating bureaucratic drag.

The conversation will cover where legal ops teams are in the governance journey, how organizations are approaching vendor AI oversight, and the real tradeoffs between innovation and control.

You'll leave with concrete frameworks, peer-tested approaches, and clarity on the questions your organization should be asking.

9:30AM Coffee break

10:00AM By Design, Not by Default: Designing the Legal Function You Actually Need

Jason Winmill

Chair

Buying Legal Council

Most legal departments have moved past the question of whether to use AI. The harder question is what comes next. In this session, 3x GC Cecilia Ziniti will dig into agentic AI and what makes it fundamentally different from the tools most teams have adopted so far: workflows that reason through multi-step tasks, maintain document context, and produce output calibrated to your company's positions, risk tolerance, and deal terms. She'll tackle the operational challenges head on: protecting privilege, managing context so quality doesn't degrade over longer workflows, and drawing the line between work AI can own and decisions that still require a lawyer. We'll also explore what's emerging: Contract Intelligence that extracts and analyzes obligations across a portfolio, playbooks that encode your team's standards so AI reviews against them consistently, and recurring automations that run without you. Come ready to engage.

12:00PM LUNCH

1:00PM From Benchmark to Budget Strategy: Turn Legal Trends into Action and ROI

You've seen the framework. Now put it to work.

This 60-minute interactive workshop moves beyond theory into action. Participants will assess their own outside counsel management programs against the OCM Maturity Model, identify their highest-priority gaps, and leave with a draft roadmap they can bring back to their organization.

Working through two structured exercises and facilitated peer discussion, attendees will score their organization across all five OCM pillars, pinpoint where they stand today, and begin drafting concrete actions across a phased timeline. The session closes with guidance on how to socialize your roadmap internally and resources to support implementation.

You'll Leave With:

-A completed self-assessment across all five OCM pillars

-A prioritized list of gaps with supporting rationale

3:15PM Break

Throughout legal history, nothing has commanded more power—or inspired more caution—than the transcript itself. What has changed is everything around it: who summarizes it with AI, where it’s stored, and which models read it. Join us for a focused 30-minute session to learn a practical framework for measuring and managing vendor risk when partners use AI, plus the essential security controls you need to keep legal data safe and compliant.

4:30PM Raise the Bar: What In-House Teams Are Now Demanding From Their Outside Partners

[MODERATOR] Milly Parekh

Sr. Manager Legal Operations

Johnson & Johnson

7:00PM POST-CONFERENCE EVENTS

8:00AM BREAKFAST

8:45AM What Does AI Actually Cost and Save? AI ROI, Management and Governance

Legal teams have spent years optimizing outside counsel based on rates, staffing, and historical performance. But as AI begins to compress effort and reshape how work gets delivered, those metrics start to break.

This session challenges traditional outside counsel management assumptions and asks:

- If effort changes, what do we measure instead

- If delivery models evolve, what does “good” look like

- And if firms don’t adapt, do they still belong in your panel

We’ll explore how leading legal departments are experimenting with new firm models and rethinking selection in light of AI-driven change. Because this isn’t just about better firms—it may be about different firms.

10:00AM Interactive Workshops

10:45AM A GCs Perspective

11:30AM Faster Work, Less Work: Rethinking Legal Workflows With AI

12:00PM Coffee Break

For decades, legal pricing has largely been treated as a black-box. We see the high-level matter and outcome with invoices based on the billable hour, but we have limited visibility into the components that drive cost, value, complexity, and effort. But that black box is becoming a set of building blocks. As legal data becomes more sophisticated, teams can break legal work down into the components that shape effort, complexity, value, and price.

As that visibility increases, legal leaders have an opportunity to move beyond guesswork to a more informed understanding of what legal work should cost based both on historical data and changing means of production. In doing so, they may find themselves rewriting some of the pricing rules that have governed legal services for decades.

AI adoption in legal departments has outpaced organizational readiness — the technology works, but roles, skills, and staffing models haven't caught up. This session unpacks what's actually changing on the ground: routine review shifting from attorneys to contract managers, hiring criteria shifting toward curiosity and adaptability over tenure, and the emergence of flexible, AI-enabled talent models that let departments scale expertise without long-term headcount commitments. The conversation moves past tool selection to the harder question: how should the legal function itself be redesigned for this era?

Sara Morgan

Chief Legal Talent and AI Officer

Axiom